Forssén, Jens

Kaczmarek, Tomasz

Alvarsson, Jesper

Lundén, Peter

RISE, Swedish ICT, Interactive Institute. Sonic Studio.

Nilsson, Mats E.

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2009 (English)Conference paper, (Refereed)

Abstract [en]

Auralization of future traffic noise scenarios would be a valuable tool for city planners, noise consultants and decision makers, since it would make it possible to evaluate various noise mitigation solutions already at the planning stage. The main goal of the Swedish multi- disciplinary research project LISTEN is to develop such a tool. In the present paper, auralizations of a single pass-by of a passenger car are investigated with respect to different simulation approaches, and the methodologies behind the approaches are described. Three listening experiments were conducted in order to perceptually evaluate the auralizations. The results showed a high degree of perceptual agreement between real and auralized sounds. However, slight differences between real and auralized sounds were found for perceived realism, annoyance and speed of vehicles, which calls for further improvements of the auralizations.